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	Claque - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Claque (French for "clapping") is, in its origin, a term which refers to an organized body of professional applauders in French theatres.
		However, it was not until 1820 that claques underwent serious systematization; on that year, an office in Paris was opened to manage and supply claqueurs.
		On the other hand, claques were also used as a form of extortion, as singers were commonly contacted by the chef de claque before of his or her debut and was forced to pay a fee, in order not to get booed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Claque (356 words)

	rediff.com: P C Punnen on claques in the media
		Claque is a French word that has got into English, and means a group of persons hired to applaud.
		The other claques active in the media are: the Vajpayee claque, the Tendulkar claque, the Azharuddin claque and the Chandrababu Naidu claque.
		The claque that V P Singh had in the media seems to be down on its luck.
	www.rediff.com /news/2001/apr/10pcp.htm (1179 words)

	The Mavens' Word of the Day
		Eventually, claque came to refer to a group of people who were paid to strike those hands together.
		It was borrowed into English in the early 19th century, and the practice of hiring a claque was at its height in that century.
		Claque has of course been connected to any kind of theatrical event where applause--or booing--is involved, but whenever I hear the word claque, I think of opera.
	www.randomhouse.com /wotd/index.pperl?date=20010329 (594 words)

	Claque
		The hiring of persons to applaud dramatic performances was common in classical times, and the emperor Nero, when he acted, had his performance greeted by an encomium chanted by five thousand of his soldiers, who were called Angustals.
		Buying up a number of tickets for a performance of one of his plays, he distributed them gratuitously to those who promised publicly to express their approbation.
		It was not, however, till 1820 that a M. Sauton seriously undertook the systematization of the claque, and opened an office in Paris for the supply of claqueurs.
	www.theatrehistory.com /french/claque001.html (256 words)

	MAPS: QWF collapse describes mind manifesting
		So what is needed is for man to give attention to his habit of fragmentary thought, to be aware of it, and thus bring it to an end.
		So there is no uncertainty about the laws of how the wavefunction develops, it is deterministic, and it precisely defines the amount of uncertainty in knowledge that will accompany the experience of making a measurement of the result.
		Multiple individual wavefunctions each representing one possibility are added (superposed) with each other to form one superposition that includes all that is known about the experimental arrangement.
	www.maps.org /pipermail/maps_forum/2004-May/006097.html (1939 words)

	Dialogic: Word of the Day: Claque
		The word "claque" might call to mind the sound of a clap, and that's no accident.
		"Claque" is a French borrowing that descends from the verb "claquer," meaning "to clap," and the noun "claque," meaning "a clap." Those French words in turn originated in imitation of the sound associated with them.
		Claque members received money and free tickets to laugh, cry, shout — and of course clap — in just the right spots, hopefully influencing the rest of the audience to do the same.
	dialogic.blogspot.com /2005/01/word-of-day-claque.html (553 words)

	Shill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, if a shill doesn't actually put uninformed parties at a risk of loss, but merely generates “buzz,” he or she may be legal.
		A person who is planted in an audience to laugh and applaud when appropriate, see "claque", or to participate in on-stage activities as a “random member of the audience,” is one example of a type of shill who usually operates legally.
		The illegal and legal gambling industries often use shills to make winning at the games offered appear more likely than it actually is. For example, illegal three card monte peddlers are notorious employers of shills.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shill (1072 words)

	Publication
		The big news this week is that the local mining companies agreed to forgive the claque the quarter-million it owes the miners if the claque will just bugger-off.
		But not due to the efforts of Superfund or claque lawsuits or EPA TAG grants, but because we’ve taken lead out of things like household paint, gasoline and (most recently) tin cans.
		And now that the lead dust has settled, lo and behold, Silver Valley kids have less than a third of the lead in their bloodstreams than the very strict (by 1970s standards) national criterion.
	www.silverminers.com /publications/showpub.aspx?id=481 (691 words)

	general news - september 2004
		The head of the Sporting Braga claque Red Boys, responsible for trouble on the terraces during Monday's game with Vitória de Guimarães, apologised Wednesday for the behaviour of some of the elements of the claque, saying that these will be expelled.
		FC Porto claque ['fan group'] Os SuperDragões said Sunday that the death threats José Mourinho received at the end of his time at the club came from a member of, but not on behalf of, the claque.
		Representatives of the claque said that the calls were in response to messages that the member's girlfriend had received from José Mourinho.
	www.footballportugal.com.pt /_news_/general_news_index/general_news_-_december_2005/general_news_-_november_2005/general_news_-_october_2005/general_news_-_september_2004.html (1128 words)

	Summer 2000
		"Claque" - French for smack (not the drug!) - is fifty-two minutes of spiky, muscular playing from three seasoned practitioners.
		Dörner has got his attacks down in a way that even Wynton Marsalis would (grudgingly) admire, Lonberg-Holm goes from strength to strength with each new release it seems (but even he sounds especially excited about this one), and Michael Zerang's percussion manages to recall both Roger Turner and Paul Lovens (no mean feat).
		The pieces here are just that bit longer than the bijou offerings on the two earlier Meniscus releases featuring John Butcher and Gino Robair respectively, and as a result this disc is more globally satisfying, even if it doesn't showcase the range of musics that Robair's "Buddy Systems" (MNSCS 003) does.
	www.paristransatlantic.com /magazine/monthly2000/08aug_text.html (4358 words)

	Erotic Nostalgia and the Inscription of Desire
		The claque is deemed an artform, manifesting the entire gamut of expressivity.
		Beyond the varied types of clapping, there is also a myriad of vocal effects: the initial, basic bravo is soon transformed into brao; one then passes on to the paroxysmic Oua-Ouaou, which finally evolves into the definitive scream, Bra-oua-ouaou -- nearly a bark.
		The final word of this art is when the claque itself shouts, 'Down with the claque !', and then applauds the piece as if they were the real public.
	www.sysx.org /soundsite/csa/eis2content/essays/p26_erot.html (3116 words)

	Domestic corporal punishment in France, Mar 2002 - CORPUN ARCHIVE frd00203 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As an Englishman married to a Frenchwoman, I have lost count of the number of times I have watched a child's tantrum or misconduct brought to a summary end by a random blow.
		"Tu as une tete a claque," the child is told before a claque is duly delivered to the tete or other bodily target.
		I should say that neither my wife nor I goes in much for kicks and punches, but in my experience as an observer, one claque may well be followed by more.
	www.corpun.com /frd00203.htm (350 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Claque; Claqueurs. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Brewer’s Dictionary > Claque; Claqueurs.
		Applause by clapping the hands; persons paid for doing so.
		He was the first to organise the Parisian claque.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/81/3634.html (90 words)

	TheStar.com - The laws of applause (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		By the late 18th century in Paris, being a member of the claque had become a paid professional activity, the "chef de claque" typically attending a production's final rehearsals in order to plan his clapping strategy.
		When the famous actress Rachel complained that her second performance received less applause than the first, the chef de claque actually wrote an offended letter to the lady, explaining: "At the first performance I led the attack in person 33 times.
		We had three acclamations, four hilarities, two thrilling movements, four renewals of applause and two indefinite explosions," all this effort so exhausting the claque that they had to make some cuts on the second night.
	www.thestar.com /NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1026144487733&call_page=TS_Entertainment&call_pageid=968867495754&call_pagepath=Entertainment/News&col=969483191630 (1184 words)

	VHeadline.com - The GOPs have become a mere claque for the 'godly' man in the White House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The GOPs have become a mere claque for the 'godly' man in the White House
		Now all it can do is to seek in war the national consensus which might enable the whole silly business to survive a few more months.
		They have become a mere claque for the 'godly' man in the White House.
	www.vheadline.com /readnews.asp?id=42949 (1116 words)

	-yourDictionary.com - Word of the Day
		A "claque" is an exclusive group whose interest is provided by those who rent them.
		Suggested Usage: "Tom and Ray Magliozzi of 'Car Talk' have a clique and a claque following their radio show in France," would mean that some of the people who follow the Tappet Brothers are independent-minded, just united by their love of the brothers' lubricating wit, while others follow them blindly.
		Etymology: French claque "a clap" itself of onomatopoetic (imitative) origin.
	www.yourdictionary.com /wotd/wotd.pl?date=2001-03-11 (236 words)

	Word For The Day, Monday, 7/1/02
		i am sure there will be an enthusiastic claque arrayed for this event.
		The Democratic claque was in abundance at Gore's appearance over the weekend.
		The PC Crowd and the cheering claque that makes up most of the media and virtually all of academia is starting to go a bit too far.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-chat/708985/posts (1921 words)

	Gary Webb: A Great Reporter - Trashed by the CIA's Claque
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		Those who wish to silence such voices in the wilderness as Gary Webb are serious and deadly opponents in the world of information warfare, and should be confronted with caution.
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	www.guerrillanews.com /headlines/headline.php?id=417 (1849 words)

	Uncle Jazzbeau’s Gallimaufrey: clique, claque, cloaca
		Reading the review, I ran across an interesting word: claque.
		A claque is a group of people hired to clap at a show.
		Well, the ancient Romans hired professional mourners to wail at their funerary rites.
	www.bisso.com /ujg_archives/000200.html (182 words)

	The Theatre and Opera in Les Miserables (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I get tickets, I know the actors, I even acted once in a play.
		The claque at the Opera is very select.
		I wouldn't go with the claque on some boulevards.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/rschwart/hist255-s01/pleasure/opera_and_les_miserables.html (181 words)

	Theatre in New York: A Brief History - Part II
		While American Edwin Forrest found his following among the working and lower classes at the Bowery, the more cerebral British tragedian William Macready appealed to the upper class gentry at the Astor Place Opera House.
		A volatile combination of press ballyhoo and widespread anti-British sentiment incited a claque of Forrest's fans to disrupt some of Macready's performances.
		The actors were bombarded with refuse, rotten eggs -- and even seats torn from the gallery flooring.
	www.musicals101.com /bwaythhist2.htm (1418 words)

	Ira Bernstein: Schedule
		Ira will be teaching two master classes (one intermediate and one advanced) at the Barcelona Tap Festival.
		Ira will be teaching tap classes at the Nit de Claque (International Tap Festival) of Reus.
		Ira will be performing a selection of tap and other percussive step dances in concert with musicians Conal Fowkes (piano) and Ruthie Dornfeld (fiddle).
	www.tentoepercussion.com /schedule.htm (471 words)

	Embarrassing Justice - Professor Wilkes - University of Georgia School of Law
		Thomas’s right-wing claque seem to think that while I may arguably
		The truth is, the Thomas claque talks about his
		claque regards all criticism of Thomas as incomprehensibly base.
	www.lawsch.uga.edu /academics/profiles/dwilkes_more/42embar.html (4275 words)

	Chapeau Claque - Moviefone: MAIN
		Synopsis: After his father's top-hat manufacturing company goes bankrupt, the young industrialist in this movie moves into the family's old, abandoned mansion and lives off of his wits and whatever little...
		Chapeau claque - Cast, Crew, Reviews, Plot Summary, Comments,...
		Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Chapeau claque (1974)...
	movies.aol.com /movie/main.adp?mid=1114229 (160 words)

	Click opera - A free trip to Tripoli
		Ne claquent que ceux dont elles sont amoureuse
		Que je claque fort ne sera plus que poussiere
		Et s'engueuler sur un air de Rai, ça fait plus joyeux et c'est moins derangeant pour le voisinage...Bon, il est maintenant temps d'aller claquer et me faire claquer!
	imomus.livejournal.com /24537.html (1236 words)

	Axel Dörner - Claque: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Axel Dörner - Claque: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more
		Axel Dörner - Claque: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more
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	www.music.com /media/claque/1 (87 words)

	Definition of claque - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
		Etymology: French, from claquer to clap, of imitative origin
		For More Information on "claque" go to Britannica.com
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	www.meriamwebster.com /cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=claque&x=16&y=18 (90 words)

	Agence France Presse French: Alessandra Mussolini, la petite-fille du Duce, claque la porte de son parti@ HighBeam ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Agence France Presse French: Alessandra Mussolini, la petite-fille du Duce, claque la porte de son parti@ HighBeam Research
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	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:87813198&refid=holomed_1 (189 words)

	Bleau.info : Buthiers Piscine (Massif l'Y) : Lady Big Claque / Le Flipper
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